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Who is still promulgating this outmoded conceit? Meg T. > -----Original Message----- > From: Paul Nelsen [SMTP:[log in to unmask]] > Sent: 15 October 2001 19:12 > To: [log in to unmask] > Subject: 12th-century liturgical drama > > Dear Friends, > > A colleague of mine has posed a question that I am unable to sort out for > her with any confidence. The specific query appears below but it asks for a > date when "liturgical" type drama shifted from interiors of churches to > outdoors. If you post your response to the list (I am interested and others > may be), I will pass it along to her. Alternatively, you may reply directly > to Prof. Clark. Meanwhile I am supplying her with copies of Chambers *The > Medieval Stage*, Tydeman's *The Theatre in the Middle Ages*, and Hardin > Craig's *English Religious Drama of the Middle Ages* -- all of which seem > to provide a swamp of evidence on why it may be hard to pinpoint a date. > Thanks for your consideration. > > Paul Nelsen > Theatre and Drama > Marlboro College > > > Is there any documentation (chronicles, letters, etc.) to > suggest, within a decade or two, when theatrical performances moved from > a liturgical context within the church to public performances of > somewhat longer plays on the exterior? I have a reference that mentions > the twelfth century, but that is a long and complex century, and I would > like to be more precise. Thank you, W. B. Clark (Art History, Marlboro > College: [log in to unmask]).